AEJMC 2010 BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES
AEJMC- Minorities and Communication Division
Business Meeting Minutes[i]
August 5, 2010, 8:30 to 10 p.m.
Jennifer Woodard, presiding
Meeting called to order at 8:30 p.m. with 66 members in attendance. Minutes from the 2009 MAC business meeting approved.
Officers’ Reports:
1. MAC Head Jennifer Woodard reported:
- From Council of Divisions meeting. From a total of 1,834 paper submissions in 2010, 853 were accepted giving it a 47% acceptance rate. Communication and Society Division had the most submissions, 184/accepted 105; Communication and Technology had the second highest submissions, 158 and Public Relations, 135, Advertising, 130, ComSher, 107 and Entertainment Studies, 75 rounding out the top six. Woodard noted that MAC’s submissions of 60 place the division within bounds of the rest of the divisions. It will be MAC’s turn for division PF&R assessment next year. 2010 AEJMC Midwinter meeting and chip auction will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- MAC Program Highlights: Ten out of 14 MAC panel proposals submitted for joint sponsorship were accepted. Out of the 10 panels, four focused on teaching, four focused PF &R and two focused on research. Woodard noted that the emphasis on teaching was MAC’s efforts to balance its programming during its five-year assessment cycle (4 in 2010, 1 in 2009, 1 in 2008 and 2 in 2007). MAC was the lead division in three of the four 2010 teaching panels.
- Research Highlights: Four refereed research sessions and 11 papers in Scholar-to-Scholar sessions. Of the 60 papers submitted to the MAC Division, 38 were submitted to the faculty competition with 19 accepted (50% rate); 22 papers were submitted to the student competition with eight accepted (36% rate).
- Top Faculty Paper Awards ($200 first place, $100 second place, $75 third). First place: Andrea Miller, David Brown, Stephanie Gray and Renee Edwards of Louisiana State University. Second place: Mavis Richardson of Minnesota State. Third place: Angie Chuang of American University.
- Top Student Papers: ($100 top paper). First place: Nangyal Tsering, U Minnesota. Second place: Larissa Williams, U Texas. Third Place: Cristina Mislan, Penn State. Fourth place: Erin Ash, Penn State.
- Teaching Highlights: MAC and the Commission on the Status of Minorities awarded the second Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity, Research and Education to Robert Ruggles, professor emeritus of Florida A&M University. This award will be presented at the AEJMC Business meeting, 10 a.m. Friday, August 6.
- MAC co-sponsored the Ida B. Wells Annual Lecture Series at Alabama State University during Black History Month.
- MAC off-site activities: MAC-Scholastic Luncheon will be held 12:15 p.m. Friday, August 6 at the Denver Press Club. The featured speaker will be Nadia Gedeon, president of the Colorado Association of Black Journalists. A MAC social will be held at Jazz @ Jack’s on Friday following the Commission on the Status of Minorities meeting that ends at 8:30 p.m.
- Budget Report: Balance as of July 31 was $4,788.32 and that it reflected convention expenditures. The beginning balance, Oct. 1, 2009 was $5,085.31. Woodard also noted that over the past 16 years, MAC’s balance -$4,017.30 and that MAC has not had a dues increase since 1997. Membership remained flat, 180-200 members. Second vice-head Felecia Jones Ross is researching the statistics in this area over the past 10 years and will report her findings.
- In other matters, Woodard reported: That MAC attempted to publish two newsletters; however, the content was sparse. With the updated website, and with officers’ commitment to contribute columns, Woodard expects the newsletter to be much improved. MAC still has its NetPresence subscription allowing the MAC website to be linked to the AEJMC main page.
- Woodard stressed that MAC’s 2010-2011 goals should be:
- Focus on teaching
- Improve between conference communication by contributing to the newsletter, improving the website and utilizing new media such as Twitter
- Updating the MAC Constitution
- Continue to recruit new members by focusing on new faculty and graduate students
- Seek sources for funds by reaching out to institutional donors such as minority-owned or minority-friendly media or foundations.
2. Midwinter Coordinator Frances Ward Johnson reported: The Midwinter Conference was held March 5-6 at the University of Oklahoma. Twenty-one papers were submitted and one panel was proposed. Sixteen of the papers were accepted.
3. Teaching Standards Committee Chair Jerry Domatob reported that more teaching panels needed to be proposed and suggested that MAC gives teaching awards.
4. Vice Head Ilia Rodriguez announced she will collect panel ideas beginning in October and seeks ideas for places for socials.
5. Past Head Lillie Fears reported on the updating of the MAC Constitution. She noted that AEJMC headquarters show that the original Constitution was adopted Aug. 23, 1971 that it had been amended in 1997 and that a 2000 newsletter suggested that some additional changes had or needed to take place. Fears called for volunteers to serve on a committee to update the constitution. Meta Carstarphen, Ilia Rodriguez, and Phil Jeter volunteered to serve on this committee.
New business:
- The membership voted to add monetary awards to second and third place student paper winners. With the changes, top faculty and student paper awards will be the following: Faculty: $200, $100 and $75. For students: $100, $75 and $50.
- Woodard announced that she will serve as newsletter editor.
- The members also voted for AEJMC to host its 2010 meeting in Montreal
Officer Elections:
2010-11 officers: Grad Student Liaison, Erica Taylor; Grad Liaison Faculty, Kyle Huckins; Midwinter Conference Coordinator, Felicia McGhee-Hilt; PF&R Chair, Lesa H. Major; Teaching Standards Chair, Yuki Fujioka; Student Research Chair, Frances Ward-Johnson; Faculty Research Chair, Bradley W. Gorham; Second Vice Head-Secretary, Felecia Jones Ross; Vice-Head, Petra Guerra; Head, Ilia Rodriguez.
Submitted by
Felecia Jones Ross, MAC Second Vice Head/Secretary
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